A Heritage Day feast without the hassle of solo hosting Potluck: From Humble Origins to Proudly South African Feasts Ah, the potluck. Few things embody the spirit of community and shared joy like a table groaning under the weight of mismatched dishes, each one telling a story about the cook behind it. But where did [...]

Taste the rainbow Why colourful food is nature’s health hack (and a mood booster!)  Let’s be honest. We eat with our eyes first. A plate of food that looks like it escaped from a crayon box is infinitely more inviting than something beige and blah. And here’s the best part: those vibrant colours don’t just [...]

A colourful cold-weather feast: Fully-loaded veggie coconut korma.  Eat away the blues.   When winter bites, let’s fight back. Not with gloomy stews or beige broths, but with a riot of colour, a dance of spice, and the creamy embrace of coconut.   Enter: the fully-loaded, vegetable-based coconut korma, proudly South African in ingredients and spirit, [...]

Bottome drawer Veggie Soup Reduce your food waste by working with a plan.  Winter is the perfect time to address food waste.  Soup, Sustainability & Second Helpings: A Guide to Reducing Food Waste Through Home Cooking  The big problem with wasted food in South Africa  Food waste in South Africa is a massive, heartbreaking contradiction. [...]

We used AI to plan our Autumn feast Let AI do everything but the cooking   We don’t use AI (That’s a Homemakers promise.) At Homemakers we believe in the human touch, which means we don’t use AI to do our writing. Every word you read in your Weekly Fix was researched, typed and checked [...]

Breakfast prep for the whole family Don’t skip brekkie!   Work with a plan. Getting up early enough to make and eat a proper breakfast is one of those things that only happen in movies. You know the ones – the parent sets out a whole breakfast spread with orange juice and pastries, and makes [...]

Grown Up Slushies Recipies Don’t let the heat get you down   There are few things as refreshing as an ice-cold slush puppy and a half priced Ster Kinekor movie on a hot Tuesday afternoon during the December holidays. If you were a wild child, you might have even convinced the snack kiosk auntie to [...]

Skip the Meat, just for November The value of so called “Veggiedays” Meat lovers’ paradise Most South Africans grow up on meat. We have some of the best steaks in the world, and we know hoe to braai them just right. (Can you hear the sizzle…?) Now, you know we would never presume to TELL [...]

How to Preserve Herbs   How to deal with your bumper crop of herbs this spring. Spring threw us a snowy curveball but now were right back in the growing season. Did you maybe over-plant and underestimate your garden’s growing power? Do you now have more bushels of basil than you could ever (even in [...]

The only Sunday lunch that matters.   The taste of tradition. Most of us grew up in super traditional families. Sundays were for early morning church, followed by grocery shopping and then a traditional Sunday lunch. In most homes that meant meat, rice and potatoes with two types of vegetable…not exactly exciting or inventive, but [...]